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Crossing the Ohio • A lot easier than it was Back In the Day
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Coffee stop in Westfield, NY (b/w photo from 1912)
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Let’s ride.
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Most of the reasons Winnegance is my favorite spot — and probably the best breakfast spot in Maine — are in the owners’ short bio. It’s also one of the only places left that opens at a reasonable hour. And, here anyone can enjoy coffee, omelette, and book on a sunny porch overlooking the Kennebec.
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Moving
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When your on-call beeper won’t let you sleep, look for a sunrise • A 4-am peek at Route 1 crossing the New Meadows River
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Spectator sports, and the conversion of all things in that direction, continue to puzzle me. In high school, we were very serious about our paintball game, which was almost entirely limited to an ever-evolving woods course at my friend’s farm. It never occurred to us in the building or the playing to involve television or bleachers. It was just something you did or didn’t do.
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And the latest Dumb Dumb Stupid Dada award goes to… yours truly. 🙂 Yesterday was Get Shit Done Day (largely because today is Can’t Get Shit Done Day). And oh boy is it dangerous to set high bars for accomplishment these days. A few weeks ago, in anticipation of some summer camping, I took down my old rooftop tent from the rafters of our tiny, former-and-hopefully-future chicken coop shed to make…
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Il Grillo Parlante returns
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Presented without comment:
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A memory : In 2008, I had a 2000 Toyota Tacoma that two or three years prior I paid $10k out-the-door for at a dealer in Dallas. When I moved back to Maine, I was commuting too much to justify the Tacoma mileage, so I traded for a brand new 2008 Toyota Yaris. The brand new price tag on that Yaris, without any dickering: $12,500. Stick shift, crank windows, no power locks, no screens — heck, nobody…
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Lyric of the morning: “ It’s hard to see all that when you’re driving by .”
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Announcement: Beginning August 1st, the cafeteria will no longer accept cash. We understand that this will negatively affect our patients more than anyone else, especially the older population of patients. But don’t worry, we will continue to publicly espouse, and shove down your throats, our pillar of commitment to patient-centeredness. Thank you for your attention to this matter. With sincerest…
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It is a known fact that Jack was once a ladies’ man who wandered the streets of Colorado and Oregon and went by the name ‘Blaze.’ He’s snipped reformed now, and we’ll never know how many kids he has. But this Ding Dong gets happy Father’s Day wishes, too.
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Not your average forecast in Maine
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Very much looking forward to One in a Million when it airs on PBS Frontline.
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Hölderlin! You get me every time!
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Nora Bateson : The impulse is to imagine a utopia and then back up from that into some sort of organization of how do we get there. And the minute that that happens, that utopia is kind of like a thief because it robs us of all of the possible complex, emergent relational chaos that actually is filled with possibility. (NB: Goals like this — utopian or otherwise — should not be mistaken for those…
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The Trump administration has brought back the entire 14th Amendment into our discourse. Interview with David W. Blight • The 14th Amendment as an answer — a Republican answer — to the Dred Scott decision and to the waves of immigration of the 1840s and 1850s.
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Several times in the last week I’ve been reminded of Kosuke Koyama and a book I’d like to get back to this summer.